Annual Report

2017 was a busy year for the AIC with concerts, international projects and the New Music Journal. The organisation also continued to develop a number of new initiatives, including the new series of conversation and discussion events, an advocacy working group and finding ways to represent a wider range of compositional approaches and styles. In addition to this, after a year of reflection for the organisation in 2016, the AIC reconsidered its place in the new music community in Ireland. A number of member-suggested changes to our priorities and activities were implemented, and we rewrote our mission statement and policies. 2017 was an exciting year of continued progress for the organisation.

Summary:Membership is now at 105, with more applications to be considered. We presented 15 events nationally, and 3 internationally . The AIC New Music Journal published 9 Articles and 3 Shorts. We continue to increase our presence and impact on social media: Facebook likes have grown from 827 to 971; non-member mailing list subscriptions have risen from 74 to 94; and our Twitter followers number 580. We secured funding from a number of sources: €2,500 from IMRO towards running costs, €10,680 from Arts Council Ireland towards our Talking New Music initiative, €1,500 from Culture Ireland towards our international programming. We met our current gender-representation goal of 30% overall representation of female and female-identifying composers in events. Current membership balance is just below this figure (29.72%). We continued to work with our advocacy working group to be the voice of contemporary composers in Ireland.

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